Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 2nd July 2011
Duty forecaster: John Ejdowski
Sunny & warm across the Mediterranean
Today
High pressure will give England and France a fine, dry mostly sunny day. Expect a day of sunshine and showers across Belgium, Holland, Norway and Germany, some heavy. An area of heavy rain will lie from southern Sweden across Denmark into northern Germany across Poland into Belarus. Mainly dry across Norway while heavy showers affect western Finland. Dry and sunnier in the east and across much of Russia today. Sunny too across the Baltic States. Heavy showers with thunderstorms will persist across the Ukraine into Romania. Sunny, very warm and dry across the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey today. Lots of heavy showers with thunder will continue across Italy today. Fine, summery weather extends westward across Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearics into a hot and sunny Spain and Portugal.
Sunday
Lots of warm sunshine is expected across England into France and down across Portugal and Spain. Mainly dry across Belgium, Holland and Denmark but rather cloudy. Rain is forecast across much of Germany and becomes heavy across Poland with frequent, heavy showers and thunderstorms across Belarus, western Russia, The Ukraine into Romania and Bulgaria. Just a few showers to come across the former Yugoslavia with sunny spells. A number of showers are likely for southern Italy with the north fine an dry. Very warm and sunny across Greece into Turkey. Expect a dry, sunny day across Norway and Finland while showers are expected across Finland.